To help you join in with the upcoming #FridayNightCocktails on the 6th May, we’ve compiled the ingredient list in two formats:
Separate ingredient lists for the four cocktails we’ll be making, but without quantities or the cocktail names.
Combined the ingredients into an alphabetical list so as to not “give the game away”.
We’ve hidden the two lists behind toggles so you can choose which list you want to use; this is a new method and we’d appreciate feedback on how well you think it works.
There can be quite a few spirits used each time we do a Friday night cocktails, but the same spirits are generally used over and over again. Strong spirits like whiskey, gin, vodka and so on will last months to a year or two once opened (how long will depend on how often the bottle is opened).
With a warmer spring hopefully on the way (although apparently not according to the forecast), we thought we’d include refreshing gin and lemonade cocktail. Best made with a good quality London Dry Gin and San Pellegrino Limonata.
An old-fashioned was one of the simpler and earlier versions of cocktails, before the development of advanced bartending techniques and recipes in the later part of the 19th century.
The old fashioned is the cocktail of choice of Don Draper, the lead character on the Mad Men television series, set in the 1960s.[20] The use of the drink in the series coincided with a renewed interest in this and other classic cocktails in the 2000s.
It was also the basis of an oft-quoted line from the movie It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, when boozy pilot Jim Backus decides to make the cocktail and leaves passenger Buddy Hackett to fly the plane. When Rooney asks, “What if something happens?”, Backus replies, “What could happen to an old-fashioned?” This scene is satirized in Archer season 3 episode 1 (“Heart of Archness”) when Sterling Archer attempts to make an old fashioned on Rip Riley’s seaplane but lacks the basic ingredients.
To help you join in with the upcoming #FridayNightCocktails on the 29th April, we’ve compiled the ingredient list in two formats:
Separate ingredient lists for the four cocktails we’ll be making, but without quantities or the cocktail names.
Combined the ingredients into an alphabetical list so as to not “give the game away”.
We’ve hidden the two lists behind toggles so you can choose which list you want to use; this is a new method and we’d appreciate feedback on how well you think it works.
There can be quite a few spirits used each time we do a Friday night cocktails, but the same spirits are generally used over and over again. Strong spirits like whiskey, gin, vodka and so on will last months to a year or two once opened (how long will depend on how often the bottle is opened.
Fortified wines such as dry and sweet vermouth, port and Dubonnet will keep for a few weeks before deteriorating. If stored in the fridge, dry vermouth will be good for about four weeks, sweet vermouth and Dubonnet for two months and port for up to three months.
This is the Pink Gin cocktail using Plymouth Gin, not one of the fruit-flavoured pink gins which many gin distilleries now sell.
Pink gin is widely thought to have been created by members of the Royal Navy. Plymouth gin is a ‘sweet’ gin, as opposed to London gin which is ‘dry’, and was added to Angostura bitters to make the consumption of Angostura bitters more enjoyable[3] as they were used as a treatment for sea sickness in 1824 by Dr. Johann Gottlieb Benjamin Siegert.
The Royal Navy then brought the idea for the drink to bars in England,[5] where this method of serving was first noted on the mainland. By the 1870s, gin was becoming increasingly popular and many of the finer establishments in England were serving pink gins.
The John Collins is a classic cocktail dating back to the 1800s. It is believed to have originated with a headwaiter of that name who worked at Limmer’s Old House in Conduit Street in Mayfair, which was a popular London hotel and coffee house around 1790–1817.
